Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration (JD/MBA)

Overview The William S. Boyd School of Law and the UNLV Lee Business School offer a dual Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration (JD/MBA) degree program that allows students admitted to both programs to pursue the two degrees concurrently.

Credit RequirementsPursued individually, the JD requires the completion of 89 credit hours and the MBA requires the completion of 42 credit hours. The dual JD/MBA requires the completion of 80 law credit hours and 30 business credit hours, as 12 credit hours of law courses are accepted toward the MBA and nine credit hours of business courses are accepted toward the JD.

Application & Matriculation

Dual degree students receive the JD degree and the transfer of MBA credits only when both degree programs are completed. A dual degree student who does not finish the MBA degree will be able to count just six credits of MBA or other graduate course work toward the J.D. degree.

Applicants to the JD/MBA program must apply for, and gain admission to, both the Boyd School of Law JD program and to the Lee Business School MBA program, respectively.

Applicants must include a statement in each application indicating the desire to pursue the dual JD/MBA degree.

While applications from current students in either program will be considered, students normally should secure admission to each program at the same time. However, petitions for admission to the dual JD/MBA program from students at more advanced stages in either program will be considered.

Under American Bar Association standards, the Boyd School of Law cannot award credit for any coursework taken prior to matriculation into the JD program. JD/MBA candidates therefore normally must enroll at the Boyd School of Law and complete one year of study before taking any MBA courses to be applied to the JD degree.

Curriculum

MBA Core Required Courses:

21 credits

Accounting for Managers

3

Leadership, Teams, and Individuals

3

Financial Decision Making

3

Market Opportunity Analysis

3

Applied Economic Analysis

3

Data Modeling and Analysis

3

Strategic Management

3

MBA Free Electives:

9

JD Required Courses:

44 credits*

Civil Procedure/Alternative Dispute Resolution I

4

First Year Elective

3

Constitutional Law I

3

Constitutional Law II

3

Contracts

4

Criminal Law

3

Lawyering Process I

3

Lawyering Process II

3

Upper-level writing-intensive course (one of various courses)

2-3

Professional Responsibility

3

Property

4

Torts

4

Third Semester Lawyering Process Course

3

* First-year required courses are prerequisites to all upper-level law courses.

Directed Electives at Law School:

18 credits

Advanced Intellectual Property Seminar

3

Advanced Issues in Tax

3

Antitrust

3

Banking Law

3

Basic Bankruptcy

2-3

Business Organizations

3

Commercial Law (Core Concepts of Secured Transactions and Payment Systems)

3

Cyberlaw

3

Economics and the Law

3

Employment Law

3

Federal Income Tax

3

Federal Taxation

1-5

Gaming Law

3

Gaming Policy Law Seminar

1-3

Health Care Organization and Finance

3

Insurance Law

3

Intellectual Property I

3

Intellectual Property II

3

International Business Transactions

3

Labor Law

3

Payment Systems

3

Real Estate Finance

3

Sales and Leases

3

Secured Transactions

3

Securitization

3

Taxation of Business Entities

3

U.S. Taxation of International Transactions

3

* Students in the JD/MBA program must successfully complete at least 18 credits of directed electives course work.

Free Electives at Law School:

18 credits

Students in the JD/MBA program must complete 18 other credits of "free" electives at the law school. These free electives may come from the list of directed electives or from any other elective offered at the law school.